It is obvious that the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem is trying to do its best to get the most out of the results of this war. Opposition MP Armen Rustamyan, a member of the newly elected Bureau of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Dashnaktsutyun Party, told this to a press conference Thursday.

"Until Armenia regains its combat-readiness, strengthens its security systems, yes, we will witness every day that all these peace-loving wishes—to establish peace, to create a field of cooperation—are fake. No. They [i.e., Turkey and Azerbaijan] will do what they can snatch away from us. Of course, they will use every opportunity for that.

Today, the main force that maintains security here and maintains peace is the Russian peacekeeping forces. It is bad that Armenia is no longer the guarantor of the security of Artsakh [(Nagorno-Karabakh)] and of the Armenians of Artsakh. And our neighbors—Turkey, Azerbaijan—see this. They see that Armenia is not taking any steps in that direction to regain its status as a guarantor of security. They consider that today it is possible to take a territory to resolve its geopolitical issues, and put the Armenians of Artsakh in a desperate situation so that they leave those territories as soon as possible. It is obvious that Azerbaijan’s wish is Artsakh without Armenians, and they will do everything so that the Armenians of Artsakh leave those territories," Rustamyan said.

The Armenian opposition lawmaker added that he does not think that Russia is so entangled in problems that it cannot oversee the situation here either.

"This is, in a sense, a challenge to the Russian peacekeepers as well. But I believe they have so many capabilities that they can prevent Azerbaijan's new 'appetites' in connection with the Russian-Ukrainian war," Armen Rustamyan concluded.